dreck
or drek
[ drek ]
/ drɛk /
noun Slang.
excrement; dung.
worthless trash; junk.
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Origin of dreck
1920–25; < Yiddish drek; cognate with German Dreck filth; compare Old English threax, Old Norse threkkr excrement
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dreck
/ (drɛk) /
noun
slang, mainly US rubbish; trash
Word Origin for dreck
from Yiddish drek filth, dregs
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dreck
"filth, trash," 1922, from Yiddish drek (German dreck), from Middle High German drec, from Proto-Germanic *threkka (cf. Old English þreax "rubbish," Old Frisian threkk), perhaps connected to Greek skatos "dung," Latin stercus "excrement," from PIE root *(s)ker- "to cut" (see shear (v.)).
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